Belarusian Victoria Azarenka beat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the third round of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Wednesday evening.
Azarenka, ranked No 133 and a runner-up in 2020, will face the winner of the match between American Jessica Pegula, the No 4 seed, and Russian Anna Blinkova next.
New York (Grand Slam), other second-round results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 90.000.000, most recent results first):
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Polina Kudermetova
Suzan Lamens vs. Iga Swiatek
Anna Kalinskaya vs. Yulia Putintseva
Anastasia Zakharova vs. Laura Siegemund
Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Xinyu Wang
Maria Sakkari vs. Anna Bondar
Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Viktorija Golubic
Jaqueline Cristian vs. Ashlyn Krueger
Amanda Anisimova vs. Maya Joint
Donna Vekic vs. Coco Gauff
Magdalena Frech vs. Peyton Stearns
Hailey Baptiste vs. Naomi Osaka
Daria Kasatkina vs. Kamilla Rakhimova
Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova
Linda Noskova vs. Eva Lys
Zeynep Sonmez vs. Marta Kostyuk
Renata Zarazua vs. Diane Parry
Iva Jovic vs. Jasmine Paolini
Anastasia Potapova vs. Mirra Andreeva
Ann Li vs. Belinda Bencic
McCartney Kessler vs. Marketa Vondrousova
Elsa Jacquemot vs. Leylah Fernandez
Liudmila Samsonova vs. Priscilla Hon
Jelena Ostapenko vs. Taylor Townsend
Elise Mertens vs. Lulu Sun
Elena Rybakina vs. Tereza Valentova
Jessica Pegula vs. Anna Blinkova
Moyuka Uchijima vs. Barbora Krejcikova
Cristina Bucsa vs. Alexandra Eala
Emma Navarro (10) beat Catherine McNally (WC): 6-2, 6-1
Emma Raducanu beat Janice Tjen (Q): 6-2, 6-1